Strat Growth Init Counsel Specialist

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Join us – Corporate Functions

Be part of the team that delivers 360º value to our people, clients, and communities. More than working in a multidisciplinary team, your roles and responsibilities will include supporting the strategy, creation, and innovation of personalized deliveries. All Corporate Functions professionals receive dedicated training to broaden their business vision and develop technical skills. Over $900 million is invested in the training and development of our people.

Note: For this position, it is necessary to attach your resume in English.

Generic Responsibilities:

•    Understand the Global Services Legal areas
•    Understand relevant company policies
•    Develop subject-matter expertise in the concerned support area 
•    Act as a point of contact for the support area
•    Understand and suggest process improvements in the support area
•    Support LTO/CIO in development of new tool or enhancement of existing ones
•    Assist team in drafting checklists and process documents
•    Directly liaison with internal stakeholders on various issues
•    Manage SharePoint and communication records
•    Identify and support any specific trainings for the team
•    Support implementation of new initiatives in Global Services Legal support area or within Legal/GLN
•    Build credible and effective relationships with onshore counsels and within GLN team
•    Support recruitment efforts for the team
•    Supervise resources, and assist GLN Team Lead in people management, as required 
•    Provide coaching and mentoring to junior members of the team
•    Provide individuals with positive and developmental feedback
•    Try to ‘give back’ to GLN/Legal.

Specific Responsibilities aligned to Role :

GLN resources partner with Legal teams across Accenture to align areas of work and drive efficiencies to ensure the best delivery of Legal services to our business clients. This is a product and/or offering legal counsel role within the applicable area of support in GSL. The GLN GSL resource may be asked to provide support in any of the following areas and over time will develop their skills to work on such projects independently:
•    Offerings & Solutions: Collaborate with GSL teams to support service and product offering reviews related to Data & AI, by providing assessments, recommendations and tools that mitigate risks while enabling desired outcomes for the business. This includes analysis of ad hoc licensing arrangements for tools and software used by the business, as well as Offering/Asset investigation and clearance in coordination with technical resources/teams to facilitate open-source software, data privacy, ECATT, vendor contract reviews;
•    Business Risk: Provide risk assessments and recommendations to the applicable business team, including on implementation of risk management practices. Recommend mitigation strategies and self-regulating governance strategies for handling AI and Data topics. Help shaping commercial models to manage legal and commercial risk; 
•    Regulatory Compliance: Collaborating with enabling regulatory compliance, best practice standards, and frameworks and processes for AI and Data related offering development reviews. Support Accenture’s Ethics & Compliance team in the design and implementation of Data & AI compliance programs. Help provide regulatory compliance reviews & advice to applicable geographies, including future-looking projections of any anticipated regulatory changes with potential impact on our business and on the strategic growth initiatives areas; 
•    Client Opportunity: Enable Accenture’s Sales & Delivery Legal team to efficiently handle day-to-day contracting, including developing contracting templates and guidance and providing SME support to deal teams; 
•    Ventures & Acquisitions (V&A): Supporting Accenture’s V&A legal and business teams in evaluation of Data & AI issues for acquisition targets, development and implementation of post-merger integration strategy;
•    Strategic Alliance & Partnerships: interact with Resale and/or Strategic Partnering teams to help shape new strategic alliances and partnerships, including capability sourcing via vendor and resale/agency transactions;
•    Responsible Business: Work with other teams and participating in initiatives to create frameworks related to cutting edge, cross-industry topics that address technology, ethics, human rights, legal and societal issues;
•    Business Operations Projects: Provide legal support to business-owned enterprise initiatives/programs, including adjusting Accenture policies and procedures to accommodate requirements of Accenture business, and; 
•    Other type of responsibilities may include: (a) providing legal advice to Accenture business teams and to deal facing professionals, (b) independently drafting, analyzing, reviewing low to high complexity agreements and documents, (c) performing legal research of laws and regulations or technical aspects applicable to assigned requests, (d) assisting with contract benchmarking, (e) helping produce and/or deliver trainings, (f) leading specific ad-hoc projects, (g) working with the business teams to evaluate inbound technology and data supply templates/agreements and outbound or client facing templates in different geographies, industries and regulatory environments, and (h) supporting clean teams (protocol audits, training / onboarding to new team members, exit / offboarding reviews).

Education:

• Graduate Law degree (JD) and admission in good standing with applicable bar association(s) (or local equivalents). Knowledge or expertise (example, post graduate studies or work experience in connection with data science and AI) in the Talent Segment expertise is a plus.

Work Experience:

• Minimum of 3 years of experience at law firm or as in-house counsel and/or in legal outsourcing

Work Requirements:

• Travel may be required

• Fluency in English (and other language, depending on geography supported) with strong oral and written communication skills